Fracture toughness anisotropy in shale

Volume: 121, Issue: 3, Pages: 1706 - 1729
Published: Mar 31, 2016
Abstract
The use of hydraulic fracturing to recover shale-gas has focused attention on the fundamental fracture properties of gas-bearing shales, but there remains a paucity of available experimental data on their mechanical and physical properties. Such shales are strongly anisotropic, so that their fracture propagation trajectories depend on the interaction between their anisotropic mechanical properties and the anisotropic in-situ stress field in...
Paper Details
Title
Fracture toughness anisotropy in shale
Published Date
Mar 31, 2016
Volume
121
Issue
3
Pages
1706 - 1729
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